https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462639
User jsmeix@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462639#c28
Johannes Meixner changed:
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--- Comment #28 from Johannes Meixner 2009-01-20 01:20:44 MST ---
I.e. you mean that the new hal package provides now both
- a generic ACL rule for SCSI devices with SCSI type "scanner"
and
- tons of rules for all the USB scanners in 70-scanner.fdi
Regarding the latter (USB scanner entries):
As there is no generic USB device class for scanners,
there cannot be a generic rule for USB scanners
so that USB scanners must be listed one by one
an this list must be maintained all the time.
Such a list of USB scanners depends on the current versions
of the scanner driver packages (which models are currently
known and supported by a scanner driver package).
Currently our scanner driver packages are
sane-backends, hplip, iscan-free, and iscan.
The 70-scanner.fdi file which I provide in sane-backends
is made from driver description files of all our
scanner driver packages.
Therefore I have in the sane-backend sources the files
- models.dat (driver description for the hpaio driver in hplip)
- epkowa.desc (driver description for the epkowa driver in iscan*)
I assume you won't like to update your hal package for each
new version of a scanner driver package?
Furthermore really unsupported models which are also listed
in the driver description files must be specially excluded
from the list, see bug #439193.
Do you think that I should really remove 70-scanner.fdi completely
from the sane-backends package?
If yes, you alone (more precisely the hal package maintainer)
would become responsible when there is no scanner device access
for normal desktop users.
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